Joining the dots through Scottish crofting education

The ‘Crofting Connections’ (Ceanglaichean Croitearachd) project is described in this article as an exemplar of the prescribed ‘Scottish approach’ to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Drawing upon the evaluation of this project an argument is made for increased attention to such initiatives that seek to (re)connect children with issues of community, heritage, land and place. In doing so, we also call for a reconceptualization of crofting in academic discourse and in the curriculum. While crofting is a specifically Scottish phenomenon, this may be of interest to readers in other nations with similar small scale agricultural traditions

Assessment at Transition: Executive Summary

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Assessment at Transition: Report

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'Never the twain shall meet?': Breaking barriers through a global citizenship partnership between NGOs and a higher education institution

As part of DFID’s work to look at how initial teacher education and training might be used to effect longer term changes in the attitudes of teachers towards global development issues, four projects were funded in the UK. In this article Harry Blee, Alan Britton, Bob Davies and Ben Young examine the project partnership between the University of Glasgow Faculty of Education and the International Development Education Association of Scotland

Reflecting on Resistance: Hindu Women ‘Soldiers’ and the Birth of Female Militancy

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